UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
03/19/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 03/19/2024 11:46
International Day for Digital Learning: Youth in the Driver’s Seat!
On 19 March 2024, to celebrate UNESCO's first International Day for Digital Learning, UNESCO, together with the SDG4 Youth & Student Network, organized a webinar to explore why learners should be at the driving seat of all decisions involving the use of technology in education and why digital learning must be on their terms!
The webinar took stock of UNESCO's vast work on digital learning. This includes recent findings from the latest GEM Report, recommendations from the UNESCO Futures of Education Report, recent guidelines on AI in education and research and progress in measuring some of the commitments that came out from the Transforming Education Summit with particular reference to the new benchmark indicator on digital learning.
Voices of the SDG4 Youth & Student Network
Dolino Le Grande
"Authentic STEM experiences can often become highly contextual and exclusive, but we can harness technology and connectivity to provide more learners the opportunity to access these contexts."
Wendy Lentz Civil
"In a world where education is under attack, we must learn to use technology as a bridge between digital information and students/youth to protect them from any disruption that can occur during learning journey."
Olga Devic
"Empowering youth in digital learning is key to unlocking the future of endless possibilities where every young mind can innovate, participate, and thrive equally."